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Hispano-American Literature

Objectives

a) Hispanic America’s historical and literary general perspective.
b) Understand the vision of America by the first European texts written about the subcontinent.
c) Understand the Hispanic American literature’s course throughout the colonial period and independence.
d) Know and understand the Hispanic American literature’s tendencies during the throughout the twentieth century.

General characterization

Code

711111077

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Isabel Rute Araújo Branco

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

- Bellini, Giuseppe (1997).Nueva historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Madrid: Castalia. 
- Bowers, Maggie Ann (2004). Magic(al) realism. New York: Routledge.
- Franco, Jean (1987). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Barcelona: Ariel.
- Lezama José L. (2005). La expresión americana. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 
- Mignolo, Walter (2007). La idea de América Latina. La herida colonial y la opción decolonial. Barcelona: Gedisa.
- Montoya, Jesús J. ,ed. (2008). Entre lo local y lo global. La narrativa latinoamericana en el cambio del siglo (1990-2006). Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana, Vervuert.
- Oviedo, José Miguel (2001). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
- Padura Fuentes, Leonardo (2002). Un camino de medio siglo: Alejo Carpentier y la narrativa de lo real maravilloso. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
- Todorov, Tzvetan (2000). La conquista de América. El problema del otro. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.

Teaching method

Presentation of the various topics by the lecturer; reading and discussion of a selection of texts covering the topics outlined in the syllabus.

Evaluation method

Two tests.(100%)

Subject matter

1. History, geopolitics and culture: understanding the Hispanic American literatures.
2. The first chronicles of the New World: Cristóvão Colombo e Bartolomé de las Casas.
3. The colonial period: Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga e Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
4. The Romanticismo: the case of El matadero (Esteban Echeverría).
5. The Independence and the nacional literatures: José María Heredia, José Martí and Ruben Darío.
6. Ways of narrating in contemporary Hispanic American literature: Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo); El reino de este mundo (Alejo Carpentier); and «Casa tomada» (Julio Cortázar).